Daisy Georgia Goodwin was born on 19 December 1961 and is an English screenwriter, TV producer and novelist.
17 Facts About Daisy Goodwin
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Daisy Goodwin has curated eight poetry anthologies, including 101 Poems That Could Save Your Life.
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Daisy Goodwin is the daughter of the film producer Richard B Goodwin and the interior decorator Jocasta Innes.
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Daisy Goodwin's parents separated when she was five and then divorced.
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Daisy Goodwin's great-great-great-grandfather was Irish clergyman Robert Traill, whose character she included in an episode of the second season of her TV drama Victoria which addressed the Irish famine in the 1840s.
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Daisy Goodwin attended Columbia Film School as a Harkness Scholar and then, in 1985, joined the BBC as a trainee.
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In 1998, Daisy Goodwin moved to Talkback Productions as head of factual programmes, becoming editorial director by 2003.
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In 2005, Daisy Goodwin founded Silver River Productions, which was sold to Sony in 2011.
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Daisy Goodwin has compiled multiple poetry anthologies, the first being The Nation's Favourite Love Poems in 1997, and written a memoir entitled Silver River.
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Daisy Goodwin was chairman of the judges for the 2010 Orange Prize for women's fiction, and commented in a New Statesman interview that "a recommendation from a woman is more interesting to me than what a man might tell me to read".
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Daisy Goodwin has presented television shows including Essential Poems and Reader, I Married Him.
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Daisy Goodwin is married to Marcus Wilford, a television executive; they have two daughters.
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Daisy Goodwin appeared in the BBC television documentary Public School about Westminster directed by Jonathan Gili, and as part of the winning Trinity College, Cambridge, team on the Christmas University Challenge BBC2,27 December 2011.
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In June 2023 Daisy Goodwin told The Times that in 2013 Daniel Korski, then a special adviser to David Cameron, had assaulted her by putting his hand on her breast during a meeting at Downing Street.
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Daisy Goodwin said she came forward following Korski seeking selection as the Conservative Party candidate for the London mayoral election in 2024.
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Daisy Goodwin later claimed that several other women had since come forward.
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Between 1998 and 2005 Daisy Goodwin worked as a producer or editor on shows including:.